A team comprising Johannes Schmitt and Tim Gehrunger, both postdoctoral researchers at the Department of Mathematics, has won the international First Proof Challenge. Their agent-based AI system solved six out of ten research-level mathematics problems, achieving the best overall performance in the competition.
Democracies are under pressure due to polarisation, declining trust, information overload, rising government debt, and geopolitical upheavals. What is needed to strengthen democratic systems and make them more resilient? This is the question that the recently established KOF Democracy Lab at the KOF Swiss Economic Institute aims to investigate and address by developing innovative solutions.
Statistics professors Dominik Rothenhäusler, Nicolai Meinshausen, Peter Bühlmann and Jonas Peters have been jointly honoured with the 2026 Frontiers of Science Award. The prize recognises outstanding scientific work that has made a significant contribution to basic research over the past ten years.